ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three notions that are relevant to the socialist social contract and the role of the intellectual in post-Soviet Cuba. First, it facilitates the moral emancipation of the individual from a collective project that conflates ethics and ideology along gender lines. Second, it also implies the alignment of the individual with a more varied set of values, thus promising a mobile community that is temporarily and partially committed to those values. And third, by encouraging both the disidentification with a collective project and the formation of alternative alliances, perversion helps the creation of an anticommunal community on the basis of jouissance. The chapter suggests the militarized ethos of revolutionary Cuba perversion produces unexpected pacts of solidarity. The revolution in its inception radically altered the sociopolitical structures of 1950s Cuba largely thanks to its ethical component, a feature that helped it become what Alain Badiou calls an original truth-process.
